fridaytea.com
š±Tasty Teas for Thirsty Nerds!š±
Seattle's geeky tea hangout, featuring premium, ethically-sourced, synesthesia-based teas šµā¤ļø Queer, femme, Latin-owned
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If you would like to help support, you can find all of my work over at ko-fi.com/mcetching
I also take custom commissions & donations as well.
Thank you for taking the time to read, I really appreciate it. Any post engagment & shares really help a lot.
It's a rough road, but the work brings me joy
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I get the glass for my jewelry doing community clean up. Walking around & picking up trash, any glass I find I turn it into sea glass.
The wire & findings I have to pay for, with the way things have been going economically that has gotten harder. All my resources have to go into trying to survive.
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We are committed to maintaining our price structure for the year. This is it. This is what our tea will cost you. Sometimes teas will be out of stock longer than hoped, as we may need to save up more $$$ before placing huge international farm-direct orders, but that's where our prioriteas lie. ā¤ļø
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4ļøā£ We source from small family farms around the world doing incredible work on the fronts of sustainable & regenerative agriculture and laborer's rights & care. With export revenues taking a massive dip from the US, these farms will struggle EVEN MORE against Big Agro. We're not abandoning them.
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2ļøā£ Tea, like coffee, wine, and chocolate, is a deeply terroir-based industry. The joy and beauty of tea comes largely from the regions, traditions, and people crafting it.
3ļøā£ Have you seen the list of tariffs by region? Tea-growing regions are disproportionately impacted. It's a whack-a-mole sitch.
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Iām taking many deep breaths and reminding myself to keep my eyes on my own work: supporting and educating around tea history and regenerative agriculture. ššµš«¶
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Exactly! You donāt have to like Earl Grey just because Picard is a fan.
Heck, even Sir Patrick didnāt like it! He was secretly drinking other teas in those cups and actually pushed to have his characterās fave be Lapsang Souchong. š
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3. Strength/body in tea have a lot to do with your leaf to water ratio! Play around!
4. Aroma is an oft-overlooked part of the experience. Donāt miss it. Thatās where the magic happens.
5. Fads come and go. Drink what brings you joy and donāt worry about whatās currently considered hip vs basic.
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PUTT PUTT MY BELOVED.
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Itās not a problem; discussion of allergies/intolerances as well as personal palate preference are all a big part of the process. We want to make something the guest will actually love and drink!
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That IS a different beast. Those come about when authors, game studios, musicians, etc. approach us and say āhey, Iād love to do a collab for such and such releaseā or when our sponsored streamers want their own tea to share with subscribers, that kind of thing. Cross-promo & usually for a project!
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Both options get final recipes saved to our database and can be reordered any time. Itās a decision between ācustomer collaborates on creation and has final sayā vs āFriday does what she wants and you get to be surprised.ā
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Weāve got two options: $230 for full service appointments (all samples & shipping included, full creative control for customer) or $120 for āsynesTEAsiaā appointments (email me your concept & any reference material, I use my synesthesia to make something wonderful, & send you 2 oz of surprise tea).
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Yes! Gregās at least as big a dork as any customer weāve ever had, so heās always excited to bring nerd ideas to life!
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Happy to talk regenerative agriculture and tea futures, I actually *teach* on exactly the topics youāre bringing up, but canāt abide the projection of values Iām not espousing, nor the implication that I support colonial farm structures. Letās take those subjects to another thread.
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Your initial quote is actually nowhere to be found in my original thread, nor has anyone claimed any aspect of agriculture or consumption is apolitical. On the contrary. You could have had friends and allies here, but chose uninformed condescension and closed ears.
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You seem to feel a need to tilt at windmills. I have no interest in hosting your ongoing bad faith (a critique, not a deflection) use of our communitea comment space to try to frame those who share your values in a contrary, confrontational light.
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We arenāt disagreeing, youāre just having a different conversation than I am right now.
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TRULY. We've been getting our fair share of these messages as well, and it baffles me every time. To those folks I'm always mentally like "ok, go drink Lipton then? Their history may be more aligned with your views?"
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Once again: absolutely UNHINGED to ask a tea source to divorce their work from politics and/or personal feelings and ideas about The System. Entirely antithetical to both the practice of tea and the industry. Folks like this don't want to look their own impact in the eye, and don't Get tea, tbh.
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Thank you. That is happening a little bit, but mostly it's totally well-meaning, helpfully-intended suggestions from non-industry folk who are uneducated on the subject at hand. I don't want to hate on the impulse or the individuals at all, just tired and overwhelmed here.
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It will take decades to approach the production quality and output of even smaller regions like Taiwan or Japan. We simply don't have the history, infrastructure or education centers, not to mention how each individual microclimate has to go through years of trial & error to get anything good.
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I'll take 30 kilos of Fujian-style tippy black tea with lovely floral aromatics off of your garden farm plz thx!
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What I have clearly stated a number of times, & stand by, is that switching in this moment to US-grown tea to make up for temporarily less accessible heritage regions isn't currently viable due to the *current* state of US industry. Not a colonial lack of vision: a contemporary market reality. (2/2)
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This is a poor faith take of what I'm actually saying here and the context of this conversation. We've always been extremely pro-biodiversity & anti-cash crop culture. Domestic tea is *clearly* an option for growth & even for creating the same networks of small farms we see in other countries (1/2)
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Truly and genuinely not trying to shame this commenter, just playing whack-a-mole with this exact kind-hearted query and Iām tired.
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EXACTLY. Agricultural Economics 101.
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YES. Itās so well-intentioned, but at the same timeā¦Iām a veteran tea direct source expert with most of a degree in farm economics, of COURSE Iāve thought of this and would already be sourcing domestically if it made any sense at all.
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The linked article is about tea farms in the US doing direct-to-consumer sales. Almost none of them even have the capacity for commodity quantities, and only like 2-3 (including Hawaiāi) offer bulk wholesale. I understand everyone doesnāt know industry stuff, but this truly isnāt an option. šš¤¦āāļø
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Energetically, absolutely.
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Oh my gosh, I bet DELICIOUS. š
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Youāre not alone! Weāve taken in a lot of their orphans and added fresh versions of those custom projects to our Secret Menu for those who wish to share them with all!
www.fridaytea.com/collections/...
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Aaaah Iād love that!
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I can totally see it! š
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LOVE that degree of spoiled! š